New Delhi, May 7 -- US technology major IBM and Indian cloud infrastructure provider Yotta Data Services plan to jointly develop an India-hosted agentic AI platform aimed at helping enterprises and public sector organisations deploy autonomous AI systems on locally governed cloud infrastructure.
The collaboration comes as Indian CIOs accelerate investments in sovereign AI infrastructure, data localisation and enterprise automation amid rising adoption of generative and agentic AI technologies.
Under the partnership, IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform will be integrated with Yotta's Shakti Cloud to enable enterprises to deploy AI agents capable of automating workflows across functions such as customer service, IT operations, finance, procurement and human resources.
The companies said the platform will be hosted entirely on India-based cloud infrastructure, targeting organisations seeking regulatory compliance, data sovereignty and secure AI deployment capabilities. The move also marks the latest expansion in Yotta's broader AI infrastructure push, as the data centre and cloud firm scales its sovereign AI ecosystem through partnerships spanning GPUs, AI cloud platforms and government-backed digital infrastructure projects.
In recent months, Yotta deepened its collaboration with NVIDIA to expand AI computing infrastructure on Shakti Cloud and announced plans to deploy more than 20,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs to build one of Asia's largest AI Superclusters.
The company has also partnered with the government-backed BHASHINI initiative to support population-scale multilingual AI deployment and recently expanded its AI infrastructure engagement with Gorilla Technology Group as part of a multi-billion-dollar smart infrastructure project.
Industry executives say such partnerships reflect a growing shift among enterprises from AI experimentation toward operational deployment, where CIOs are increasingly focused on governance, scalability and measurable business outcomes.
"Indian enterprises are increasingly focused on operationalising AI in a way that is secure, governed and aligned with regulatory expectations," said Sandip Patel, Managing Director, IBM India and South Asia.
IBM also plans to bring its Sovereign Core platform to Yotta's Shakti Cloud infrastructure. The platform is designed to help organisations build AI-ready sovereign environments with continuous compliance monitoring, governed AI execution and secure data management.
Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of Yotta Data Services, said India's AI ecosystem would require infrastructure built around "sovereignty, security and performance".
The partnership comes amid a broader enterprise technology spending surge in India. A recent report by Bain & Company projected AI and data transformation would account for 40-45% of India's change-related technology spending in 2026, with CIOs prioritising AI roadmaps, cybersecurity and data modernisation.
Analysts say India's sovereign AI infrastructure market is emerging as a key battleground for hyperscalers, cloud firms and data centre operators as enterprises seek locally hosted AI platforms capable of supporting large-scale deployment while complying with evolving regulatory frameworks.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from TechCircle.